Praying 4 a Miracle
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- Sep 22, 2024
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Free will is one of the most powerful forces that we possess, and making decisions one of the most important jobs. If things go well in this area then everything is just peachy, but when things don't go well, our decisions can obviously cause catastrophic results.
This is when our regret kicks in big time, and it's not a fun emotion. Personally, I've been struggling with this a lot lately. For almost six decades I felt like I was doing pretty good with my decision-making duties in life, but the last couple years, not so much.
It can be hell on Earth when we spend major amounts of time punishing ourselves with regret over bad decisions which we all make. There's going to be some, there is no way of avoiding it completely. But obsessive regret can be brutal, and we need to be kinder to ourselves. There is no one on Earth who doesn't make mistakes, and that's just the way it is.
Sometimes we just need to let go of it, and stop punishing ourselves. Personally, I really struggle with this. I tend to beat myself up pretty badly when I make serious mistakes. Even when these mistakes cause catastrophic suffering, which I've experienced for the last couple of years, it's still not healthy to hang onto massive amounts of regret.
A small amount can be good in fact, because it forces us to intensely analyze our mistakes, which will help to prevent us from making future mistakes that may be similar. But generally, we tend to go way overboard on this.
So we just need to be kinder to ourselves, and try to let it go when we screw up. I know how hard it can be to do this, because I struggle with this probably more than the average person.
Regret causes us to experience huge amounts of extra anxiety and stress, which greatly affects our sleep quality. There's nothing good that comes from experiencing huge amounts of it, only bad. Although it's difficult, for the sake of our health, we should really kick as much of it to the curb, as is humanly possible.
If we all had a time machine, then we could go back and try again, which would solve these problems entirely. The next best thing to this, is to just try and move forward and forgive ourselves for our mistakes.
My biggest regret was allowing my stress level to get too high, which has caused huge health problems. Every day I wish that I could go back and run through that time period again, and prevent that from happening, but sadly time only goes in one direction. So I just have to let it go, which is a lot easier said than done.
The entire idea that time only goes in one direction, to me seems brutal, but regret only makes things much, much worse. So I'm making every effort to keep the car in drive, and avoid trying to shift the transmission into reverse while I'm driving down the road. If anybody ever does come across a time machine though, please let me know lol!
This is when our regret kicks in big time, and it's not a fun emotion. Personally, I've been struggling with this a lot lately. For almost six decades I felt like I was doing pretty good with my decision-making duties in life, but the last couple years, not so much.
It can be hell on Earth when we spend major amounts of time punishing ourselves with regret over bad decisions which we all make. There's going to be some, there is no way of avoiding it completely. But obsessive regret can be brutal, and we need to be kinder to ourselves. There is no one on Earth who doesn't make mistakes, and that's just the way it is.
Sometimes we just need to let go of it, and stop punishing ourselves. Personally, I really struggle with this. I tend to beat myself up pretty badly when I make serious mistakes. Even when these mistakes cause catastrophic suffering, which I've experienced for the last couple of years, it's still not healthy to hang onto massive amounts of regret.
A small amount can be good in fact, because it forces us to intensely analyze our mistakes, which will help to prevent us from making future mistakes that may be similar. But generally, we tend to go way overboard on this.
So we just need to be kinder to ourselves, and try to let it go when we screw up. I know how hard it can be to do this, because I struggle with this probably more than the average person.
Regret causes us to experience huge amounts of extra anxiety and stress, which greatly affects our sleep quality. There's nothing good that comes from experiencing huge amounts of it, only bad. Although it's difficult, for the sake of our health, we should really kick as much of it to the curb, as is humanly possible.
If we all had a time machine, then we could go back and try again, which would solve these problems entirely. The next best thing to this, is to just try and move forward and forgive ourselves for our mistakes.
My biggest regret was allowing my stress level to get too high, which has caused huge health problems. Every day I wish that I could go back and run through that time period again, and prevent that from happening, but sadly time only goes in one direction. So I just have to let it go, which is a lot easier said than done.
The entire idea that time only goes in one direction, to me seems brutal, but regret only makes things much, much worse. So I'm making every effort to keep the car in drive, and avoid trying to shift the transmission into reverse while I'm driving down the road. If anybody ever does come across a time machine though, please let me know lol!
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. I guess a part of me want to give them all the things I have never gotten
